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Example sentences for "terrorized"

Lexicographically close words:
terrorism; terrorist; terroristic; terrorists; terrorize; terrorizing; terrors; terrour; terrours; ters
  1. Eight years before, he, with a number of young officers of the army stationed at Pinsk, while in search of a little pleasurable excitement, had raided the Jewish quarter and terrorized the helpless inhabitants.

  2. She has terrorized all of us as cruelly as ever her Puritan ancestors terrorized Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.

  3. A feeling of unrest, of impatience, began to manifest itself, vague threats were voiced, but the idea of a bribed or terrorized jury was so preposterous that few gave credence to it.

  4. The whole country is terrorized by a conspiracy of a few bold and masterful men.

  5. We are honest people, but we are terrorized by a few bad men.

  6. Then he was terrorized with the sudden realization that the tide had changed and that he was drifting slowly away from the little fleet and out toward the open sea.

  7. Calhoun and Clay denounced them as "conspiracies of lawless men" who so terrorized would-be purchasers that bona fide sales were impossible, and they urged that vigorous measures be taken to abate them.

  8. With the entire little village terrorized by this campaign of "frightfulness," and the court wholly unprotected, Judge Henderson reluctantly acknowledged to himself that "the power of the judiciary was exhausted.

  9. They not only terrorized into acquiescence those among them who were willing to pay the amount charged for the lands, but also openly declared that they would resist by force any sheriff in ejectment proceedings.

  10. They asked themselves why it was that a man of the sheriff's proven courage, marksmanship and cleverness should fail to get the man who so terrorized the ranch.

  11. Haydon brought him here from Arizona--where he'd terrorized a whole county, runnin' it regardless.

  12. The men feared no interference with the work, for they had terrorized the ranchers in the valley until the latter well knew the futility of retaliatory measures.

  13. She had terrorized me like the rest, and though I knew I never would see her again, her pale, lifeless mask haunted me.

  14. I have a feeling that he wishes me to coƶperate with him, not to be terrorized and driven to death by him.

  15. Jimmy Singleton, terrorized by the thing that had happened to his father, needed no urging.

  16. Terrorized by his brutality she agreed to accept less wages.

  17. Later, terrorized by Buteau, he cancelled the agreement, and repaid half the sums he had received.

  18. Another filibustering expedition led by a French adventurer who called himself Count Raousset de Bouldon terrorized the north.

  19. At length a ruthless system of capital executions, by which nearly one hundred thousand victims are believed to have perished, terrorized China.

  20. This was a special body raised by the railways and colliery owners to supplement the efforts of the ordinary civil police, who were perfectly helpless in the face of the organized ruffianism which terrorized the district.

  21. It was by acts like these, of which other instances are on record, that John terrorized the country and held it quiet under his tyranny.

  22. About the middle of October the Empress went on to Gloucester, where her followers terrorized city and country as they had at Bristol.

  23. The Grand Vizier was thereupon terrorized into resignation.

  24. The Greeks in other parts of the Empire had been terrorized into submission.

  25. They terrorized the capital, and in the provinces they were at the disposal of any adventurous pasha who suborned them to support his ambitious and rebellious projects.

  26. However, nothing was farther from the minds of the German men of war than that the women cogs of their supremely organized land should presume to criticize methods which had, to their best belief, terrorized the world.

  27. The band who were riding out to capture the last of the gang of ruffians who had terrorized that part of the goldfields, and between them had committed many murders, was composed of individuals with an abundance of experience.

  28. Not that he would have terrorized them altogether.

  29. Bullies arose, too, and for a while terrorized even these lawless, gambling men.

  30. I cannot help asking why men and women should be terrorized by custom--the method followed or prescribed by other men and women.

  31. Once a huge black, crazed by drink, had run amuck and terrorized the town, until his evil star had led him to where the black-haired French giant lolled upon the veranda of the hotel.

  32. The actual maneuvering to capture the alien that had terrorized a planet began shortly after noon.

  33. He kept moving--one man, alone, walking through the dark toward a superhuman monster that had terrorized Earth for a decade.

  34. Look at Jack the Ripper and consider how he terrorized London a couple of centuries ago.

  35. Jacinto Quesada has long harassed and terrorized us poor Moors.

  36. Trembling in every limb like a terrorized doe, she retreated out the doorway.

  37. For a long unendurable interval, stupefied by the shock of the hidalgo's sudden coming, she stood terrorized and iced with dismay.

  38. He terrorized the Four Kings of the sea, and dressed himself at their expense.

  39. It had been built by the Romans, and in the Middle Ages was the stronghold of brigands, who captured beautiful ladies and terrorized the whole country.

  40. Nevertheless I didn't budge, as if I were at length going to learn why one human being can be so terrorized by another.

  41. Could I not see her disdainful attitude towards a man's poverty, her terrorized submission to the world's judgment?

  42. Hereafter the invasion seemed arrested; the Generals were terrorized and saw that the one best thing for them to do was to be victorious.

  43. About 1577, there arose complaints of seven or eight bands of Moriscos who lived by robbery and murder and terrorized the districts in which they operated.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terrorized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.